BRIKWARS is the plastic-brick tabletop wargame
that throws the peaceful worlds of construction toys into wanton chaos
and destruction!

Bring and build your own armies, vehicles, and monsters in an all-out war
for construction toy glory, with a robust system to incorporate whatever
you create. If you can build it, you can bring it to battle in BRIKWARS!

And we all learned an important lesson: when GoDaddy tech support tells you they’ve restored functionality, don’t believe them. I could have saved hours if I’d just taken the reasonable step of checking for myself whether they were telling the truth or not. The original database is still disabled, but we were able to copy the data to a new non-disabled database and everything’s working fine again.

For curious googlers with the same problem: there’s a bug in MediaWiki that adds a new entry to mw_objectcache on every pageview, with no expiration date, even when caching is turned off. Our mw_objectcache had grown to a gig in size, setting off automated database disabling.

Regardless of your caching level, you can safely empty the entire mw_objectcache and let MediaWiki rebuild whatever parts it needs – unless GoDaddy has already disabled your database, in which case you can make a backup of the old database, copy it into a new one, and redirect your wiki to it.